Electric Lit Archives

I Rewatch “Gilmore Girls” to Remember my Stepfather

“I find echoes of the man who raised me every time I watch the iconic mother-daughter show.”

“Europe’s pop music Olympics makes me nostalgic for my motherland before war splintered it.”

“There is a cost to being a writer, and my bill has come due.”

“To be a service worker is to be in constant deference to Karens, but in retail, a Karen can be anyone.”

Reads from Zefyr Lisowski, David Gessner, Susie Cagle, Brendan I. Koerner, and Athena Aktipis and Coltan Scrivner.

“I am just one parent. What if more parents read translated books with their children?”

“We need them to assert our very existence.”